A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about.

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C&D = Takedown = Chill = Limited Creativity = Limited Speech

Ericka Jacobs at Copyfutures found my Fear the Takedown story about Bits of Freedom’s takedown study. She over-stated my effort; all I really did was quote text from Copyfight, which they quoted from Doom9, but that’s how blogs and the web work. More importantly, Erika explained a lot more than I did, including detailing takedown proceedures and safe harbor provisions under US and European copyright law. Finally, she ends by quoting a report by Chilling Effects, a copyright resource center maintained by the “Electronic Frontier Foundation and six law school clinical programs.”

…cease and desist letters sometimes — but not always — have chilling effects on speech that might qualify as fair use.